On a recent nostalgic visit (July 2004) to Scitex in Herzlia (some people call this place Creo?) Efi posed for a picture. Scitex founder Efi Arazi is standing next to his own picture at the permanent picture exhibit near the main entrance in building 1.
Special thanks to assaf.lahav-radlmesser@creo.com and emil.menashe@creo.com who sent us this, and many other pictures, that we will post here on a regular basis.
For those ExScite’s who feel nostalgic about eating at the employees dinning room in Herzlia, here is the menu (in Hebrew), as photographed last winter on location.
This picture was taken in 1982.
Scitex, the crown jewel of the Israeli industry, was invited by the Israeli President Chaim Herzog for export industry prize award ceremony at the president’s residence in Jerusalem.
Representing Scitex at the ceremony were in front row (click for the big picture view) were: Scitex CEO Efi Arazi (on the right), Elsy Menko (between Arthur and Efi), EVP Arthur Low (third from the right, wearing glasses) invited to the 1982 Also Kobi Stern (second from the left), and sitting on the left Tanya Shneider.
The picture was sent to us by Elsy Menko from Holland.
What a nice bunch- Sure enough, the Israeli company AVT sports 4 ExScite
executives:
Shlomo Amir
is President and CEO (top picture). Shlomo joined AVT in 1997. Before joining
AVT, he served for two years as vice president of marketing and sales at Nice
Systems Ltd., an Israel-based international high-tech company in the area of
digital voice logging. Previously, Slomo worked for 12 years at Scitex
Corporation, and in his last nine years with Scitex he was based in its European
subsidiary in Brussels, serving in various marketing, sales and management
positions.
Koby Shtaierman,
is Executive V.P. Corporate Sales & Marketing (second picture). Prior to joining
AVT in 1999, he was vice president of marketing at Technomatix, a multinational
company headquartered in Israel that develops computer-aided production
engineering software tools for the automotive and aerospace industries as well
as heavy industries worldwide. Previously Koby served at Scitex for 10
years in various positions, including as R&D project manager and later as
director of marketing for Scitex?s input systems division.
Kobi Olin is V.P. Business Development (third picture). Prior to joining
AVT in 2004, he was an Investment Manager with Orbotech Technology Ventures,
Orbotech’s Corporate Venture Fund. Alongside his work at the corporate VC, Kobi
was an active member of Orbotech’s Corporate Business Development Team. In his
previous position, he was a Founding Partner and a Managing Director at Sphere
Capital Markets. He also served as a Futures & Options Floor Trader for Harel
Securities at the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange, and prior to that as a research
assistant at the Tel Aviv University and held R&D positions at Scitex
Corporation.
Gal Shamri
is VP Marketing (bottom picture). He joined AVT in 99 and prior to his current
position he served as Marketing & Business Development Manager and later as
Corporate Marketing Manager. Prior to AVT he worked at Scitex Corporation
for 6 years in the Input division and served in various positions including
Application Specialist and Product line Manager.
Advanced Vision Technology Ltd. (AVT, Prime
Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, ISIN: IL0010837248), is a provider of
automatic optical inspection and quality assurance solutions for the printing,
packaging. The company is located in Hod Hasharon, Israel.
In 1978 Samuel (Sami) Tof from Stork Screens, Boxmeer, the Netherlands sold the first Scitex Response 220 system to the Soviet Union.
The
ExScites Stuart
Rudolph and
Gideon Moran
Grand Image, Inc.
Meir Levi sent us this picture that goes back to the very early days when Scitex was still called Scientific Technology Ltd. and was located in the research campus of Weitzman Institute in Rehovot, Israel.
As an electronic technician, Meir was one of the 25 employees “We were a small group, so we knew each other very well. Much like a small family headed by dady Efi Arazi” he says. In the picture (circa 1969) you see Meir smiling with Rachel, a lovely English lady. who was the secretary of the engineering staff.
Meir Levi is the president of Shoreline Commercial Real Estate.
He started his career as an Electronics technician at Scientific Technology, that later on became Scitex. He moved on in the early 70’s and while getting his engineering degree he worked part time at Amdahl Corporation in Sunnyvale, CA on mainframe computers. Then he moved on to Intel Corporation (1977 – 1981) as Test Engineer and later in a newly formed group called, Technical Support for the 8088 & 8086 Microprocessors. In the 80’s he worked in a start up company working on IBM PC Based CAD / CAM product. In 1983 Meir switched to commercial real estate business.
Since 1996 Meir owns Shoreline Commercial Real Estate, Inc. Shoreline is a real estate consulting firm, located in Saratoga California. They provide consulting services to commercial and private clients in the area of real estate for hi-tech companies.
Meir is also a member of the Angel Investment Group called Silicon Ventures, located in the Silicon Valley. This group mainly invests in Israeli startups, both in the Silicon Valley and in Israel.